BATON ROUGE - If a proposed bill passes, any public employee giving public funds to the American Library Association would be subject to up to two years in prison and a $1,000 fine. The American Library Association is a non-profit, professional organization that provides accreditation to those studying higher-education for library based studies. Librarians said this accreditation is currently required by most libraries in the Louisiana. Public libraries also can pay to join the... Read this story